Slide loop buckle



Sept. 27, 1949. ELWELL 2,483,128

SLIDE LOOP BUCKLE File d March 26, 1945 INVE TOR.

Patented Sept. 27, 1949 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE SLIDE LOOP BUCKLE Application March 26, 1945, Serial No. 584,804

1 Claim.

This invention relates to slide loops, the combination of a slide, mountable upon a strap, and a button loop adapted to be clipped over a button carried by a garment to be supported thereby, the invention more particularly residing in such a slide loop having for its object that, instead of being mounted upon a strap by means of a threaded strap therein, is adapted to receive a looped strap an end portion of which is thereby turned back upon the body of the strap instead of hanging at the rear, and in the way, of the button loop portion of the device.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device the members of which are relatively positioned in readiness to receive a strap; Figure 2 is a similar elevation excepting that the members are positioned in strap binding position, the strap not being shown; and Figure 3 is an end view of the device in cross-section on the dotted line 3-3 of the Figure 2 and illustrating in outlin a looped portion of a strap secured within the device.

With more particular reference to the accompanying drawing, the numeral l designates the wire member of the device and A the sheet-stock member. The wire of the member I is formed to provide the straight uppermost cross-bar 2 the extremities of which are formed downwardly at right angles thereto to provide th side bars 3 and 4 each terminating in a loop in which the wire is looped backwardly, as at 3A and 4A, and then inclined inwardly toward one another, as at 3B and 433, to depend therefrom and provide the restricted throat portion 30 as an entrance to the button-retaining loop 3D, the free extremities 5 and 5 of the wire being bent toward one another in relative alignment to provide a closure for the retaining loop 3D. The sheet-stock member A is a substantially rectangular piece of material, preferably of metal, of which the lower central portion is partially out and spacedly folded back upon itself to provide a cradle B of U-shape in cross-section with walls C and D in substantially parallel planes, one to the other enclosing at their base the seat B, the lower side portions of the rectangular material being closely looped around the side bars 3 and 4, as at E and F, for a sliding movement of the sheet-stock member A upon said side bars 3 and 4 of the member I, the bar 2 being adapted to be enclosed within the cradle B. One of the walls C and D of the cradle B being provided with one or more inwardly indented bosses G.

To secure a looped strap S within the device, the members I and A are relatively positioned as illustrated by the Figure 1. An end of the strap S is then passed from the front of the device between the bar 2 and the member A. The member A is then slidingly moved upon the bars 3 and 4 to the position, relative to the member I, whereby the strap covered bar 2 is forced past the bosses G and seated within the cradle B. All stress caused by the pulling weight of the supported garment upon the device is wholly upon the wire member I, the binding grip upon the strap loop held between the walls C and D of the cradle B places all stress from above the device upon the bar 2. The inwardly indented bosses G provided by one of the walls C or D prevents all unintentional tendency of accidental releasing movement as between the members I and A. The strap S thus held positions the strap end SA directly upward in its folded relation to the body of the strap S.

I claim:

A two part, slide loop buckle with a wire member having, in one plane, a cross bar and side bars depending therefrom at each end with the lower ends of the side bars brought together in a button receiving loop, a sheet stock member having a plane portion in juxtaposition to said wire member, lugs extending from opposite edges of the lower part of the sheet member with each lug folded around an adjacent side bar for vertical sliding thereon and a portion of the lower edge of the sheet stock member being folded inwardly and upwardly to extend well above the cross bar and form, the center of the plane portion, a U- shaped cradle of materially lesser width than the space between the side bars and curved to bear against a strap member to be folded below and around the cross bar.

GEORGE HENRY ELWELL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name I Date 1,132,856 Kerngood et al Mar. 23, 1915 1,306,091 White June 10, 1919 1,409,355 Austin Mar. 14, 1922 1,779,449 Rice Oct. 28, 1930 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 425,197 France June 3, 1911 

